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RAIN 03/03 Weekly Update: Archives (23)
Reuters 02/22/02
Beatles Hey Jude manuscript goes under
the hammer
Fri Feb 22, 8:53 PM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Paul McCartney's manuscript of the Beatles' hit song "Hey Jude" goes up for auction in London in April when it is expected to fetch 80,000 pounds ($114,000).
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020223/music_nm/beatles_1
Daily Herald 02/24/02
New research corrects the facts on early black settler
By Madhu Krishnamurthy Daily Herald Staff Writer
There is only a brief mention in history books of Amos Bennett, Lake County's first black settler.
But a nearly decadelong research effort by local historians has revealed remarkable information about this prominent man, initially recognized only as a "squatter" - someone who lives on land he doesn't own.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cdh/20020224/lo/new_res...rch_corrects_the_facts_on_early_black_settler_1.
New York Times 02/24/02
Whose History Is It, Anyway? The Public's or the Officials'?
By CELESTINE BOHLEN
NEWSPAPERS may provide a rough draft of history, but archives are where the
raw materials are stored. And so when politicians start messing around with public
archives, historians — and, of course, archivists — can be counted on to rise up in
arms.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/24/weekinreview/24BOHL.html
Wired News 02/25/02
DNA Unveils Ghost Town Secrets
Associated Press
VIRGINIA CITY, Nevada -- Archaeologists searching under floorboards in this 19th century mining town are using DNA testing in a way it's never been used before to learn secrets about the Old West.
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50647,00.html
Foster's Online 02/25/02
Fifteenth-century history book discovered in Midcoast home
By ANN S. KIM
Associated Press Writer
CAMDEN, Maine (AP) — Barrie Pribyl knew she had something special when she took the old book out of the farmhouse and loaded it into her car with the hundreds of others.
What the book dealer didn’t know right away was that she had the "Nuremberg Chronicle," a 500-year-old history of the world considered a milestone in the history of printing.
http://www.fosters.com/news2002a/feb02/25/nh0225f.htm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020227/ap_en_ot/wkd_nuremberg_chronicle_1
The Guardian 02/26/02
British Library digitises Chaucer for the internet
John Ezard
Technicians at the British Library yesterday began the delicate, six month task of digitising the mother work of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
The project will open the book to a potential audience of millions through the internet. Surfers will be able to spend evenings online with two of the bawdiest characters in the language: the eponymous wife of Bath, and the miller's wife in the Miller's Tale.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/newmedia/story/0,7496,658246,00.html
Calhoun Times 02/26/02
Brown's photo collection saves past
Jeff Bishop
Beauty fades, buildings crumble, people pass on, and cemeteries become so overgrown with weeds that grandsons lose their grandfathers forever. But photographs remember. In that respect, Gordon County is well-represented, local archivist John Brown asserts. “We have the largest collection of old photographs in the state of Georgia,” Brown said. He should know.
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=archivedetails&pnpid=722&om=1&ArchiveID=738054
The News-Sun and The Evening Star 02/27/02
Archivist guards ACD treasures
By Christine Bryant
February 27, 2002 - AUBURN - When Jon M. Bill filled a newly created position at the
Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum about eight months ago, he never thought he would
routinely talk to people from all over the world.
"Yesterday, I sent a package to Australia and one to Austria," he said, shaking his head in amazement.
http://www.kpcnews.com/archives/index.inn?loc=detail&doc=/2002/February/27-1905-dekalb01.txt
Birmingham Post 02/26/02
Tolkien 'believed books were true'
Feb 26 2002
By Staff Reporter, Bimingham Post
Birmingham born novelist JRR Tolkien may have believed that the events in his masterpiece The Lord of the Rings actually took place, according to a letter from the author due to be auctioned next month.
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/page.cfm?objectid=11650203&method=full
Associated Press 02/28/02
Giuliani Records Deal Questioned
Thu Feb 28, 2:58 AM ET
By DIEGO IBARGUEN, Associated Press Writer
NEW YORK (AP) - A new proposal that classifies some of former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's records as public and others as private still doesn't conform to New York's Freedom of Information law, an official says.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020228/ap_on_re_us/giuliani_records_10
New York Times 02/28/02
Records Dispute Kissinger on His '71 Visit to China
By ELAINE SCIOLINO
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 — Henry A.
Kissinger used his historic meeting with Prime Minister Zhou Enlai of China in
1971 to lay out in detail a radical shift in American policy toward Taiwan in exchange
for China's help in ending the war in Vietnam, previously classified documents show.
The account of the meeting in the newly released documents contradicts the one that
Mr. Kissinger published in his memoirs.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/international/asia/28CHIN.html
Dallas Morning News 03/01/02
At the Alamo, seven more to remember
Descendants' group adding to evolving list of mission's defenders
By ED TIMMS / The Dallas Morning News
SAN ANTONIO – The deeds and deaths of the Alamo's defenders are the stuff of history,
legend and mythology.
But 166 years after a Mexican bugler sounded Deguello, the haunting declaration that no
quarter would be given at the Alamo, exactly who fought there and who didn't is still open to debate.
http://www.dallasnews.com/texassouthwest/stories/030102dntexalamo.bf6fd.html
New York Times 02/28/02
Historian Leaves 'NewsHour' in Midst of
Furor Over Book
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
nder fire for inappropriately copying passages in a 1987 book, the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin has taken a leave of absence from her role as a commentator on the "NewsHour With Jim Lehrer." In addition, the University of Delaware has withdrawn an invitation to Ms. Goodwin to be the commencement speaker this year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/28/books/28GOOD.html
Associated Press 03/01/02
Hawaiian Music Seeks Hall of Fame
By RON STATON
HONOLULU (AP) - Rock 'n' roll, country, jazz and gospel music all have halls of fame to honor and remember their greats. Now a group in Honolulu wants to build a Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame and Museum to showcase and preserve the islands' music.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020301/ap_on_en_mu/hawaiian_music_2
The Olympian 03/01/02
Proposal may save State Library
BRAD SHANNON THE OLYMPIAN
OLYMPIA -- The State Library, facing extinction in the state budget crunch, might
be spared under a proposal gaining support in the Legislature.
The new plan, which is backed by the State Library Commission, library staff and
lawmakers of both parties, would transfer part of the agency to the Secretary of
State's Office and other parts to the state archives office.
http://news.theolympian.com/stories/20020301/HomePageStories/26723.shtml
Houston Chronicle 03/02/02
Alamo's hero list stays unamended
By JOHN W. GONZALEZ
SAN ANTONIO -- As descendants of Battle of the Alamo combatants gather today to observe the 166th anniversary of the Alamo siege and Texas Independence Day, officials are pleased by the public's unrelenting fascination with the historic shrine.
But they're not ready to add to the list of confirmed Alamo defenders, despite outside researchers' claims that at least seven more names should be added to the roster of 189 men who perished here in 1836.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1278320
Fayetteville Observer 03/02/02
Chesnutt’s papers remain left in the rough
By Aesha Duval
Staff writer
Fayetteville State University has a collection of documents belonging to black
novelist Charles W. Chesnutt and his family but lacks the funding and staff to
research the material.
Chesnutt lived in Fayetteville during the 1870s and 1880s and was the second principal of the State Colored Normal School, which would later become FSU. Chesnutt died in 1932 at the age of 74.
FSU officials said the documents may never have been published. They are in the
university’s archives.
http://www.fayettevillenc.com/obj_stories/2002/mar/n01lett.shtml
The Standard-Examiner 03/02/02
DUP protests increase in fees at Cache museum
Chamber of Commerce wants organization to pay bigger share
http://www.standard.net/standard/news/news_story...0020228231027470003+cat=news+template=news1.html
Business Week 02/28/02
A Library as Big as the World
Brewster Kahle has the technology to assemble the ultimate archive of
human knowledge. What's stopping him? Restrictive copyright laws
by Heather Green
Brewster Kahle is tackling a big task. And despite some looming clouds, he's pretty darn excited about it. Kahle, a 41-year-old serial entrepreneur, is building the Digital Age's equivalent of the ancient library of Alexandria.
The first installment of his project launched last October. That's when the public could finally use the Internet Archive, a collection of 10 billion pages, including Internet sites, movies, and Usenet postings five times larger than the amount of information at the Library of Congress.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2002/tc20020228_1080.htm
Burlington County Times 03/02/02
One crime he couldn't crack
By David Levinsky
BCT staff writer
http://www.phillyburbs.com/burlingtoncountytimes/news/news/41402506.htm
Henrietta Post 02/27/02
Life in Rush, circa 1879-1881
Cynthia Bassett/Messenger Post Correspondent
Want to take a trip back to a simpler time? Jenny Peer, Rush Library director, has just
the ticket, and it won't even cost you a penny.
Peer has purchased 15 original editions of The Echo, a newspaper published in Rush
from 1879 through 1881. The biweekly newspaper sold for just a penny.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=3398693&BRD=1890&PAG=461&dept_id=122248&rfi=6
The Log Cabin 03/01/02
Terror's record
UCA Archives preserves accounts of America's terrible day
BY FRED PETRUCELLI
In Jimmy Bryant's cataloguing system, the horror story of Sept. 11 will forever remain inviolate in the archives of the University of Central Arkansas.
The archivist has assembled voluminous data about the terror inflicted on New York and Washington. This collection of materials, and more as the story of the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon evolves, is being preserved for perusal by future generations.
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/030102/loc_0301020008.shtml
The Salt Lake Tribune 03/02/02
Archival Exhibit Takes to the Road
BY LORI BUTTARS
A traveling exhibit of Utah historical artifacts and anecdotes offers not only a glimpse into the state's past but also to what might yet be.
http://www.sltrib.com/03022002/utah/715788.htm
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va